Men never work any good unless through necessity, but where choice abounds and one can make use of license, at once everything is full of confu- sion and disorder. Therefore it is said that hunger and poverty make men industrious, and laws make them good. Where a thing works well on its own without the law, the law is unnecessary; but when some good custom is lacking, at once the law is necessary.

MACHIAVELLI, niccolò: DISCOURSES ON LIVY (1517)

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